Gathering Friends in August
1st August 2006, Tuesday
Been pretty uninspired to post on the blog which limit to about 2 posts a week these days...
Not that work had been particularly preoccupying my life... just that I do not get a regular internet access in the office which really limits down the time to do my usual surfing as compared to my previous job...
Not that I am complaining as I do find being busy here with my own projects surely beats ample free time in my previous job...then of course the non-existent of JxMMy (what a nostalgic name to mention for a long time) sure makes life more beautiful...
Then again when I am back home from work, my mind would just wanna relax and watching comedies or mindless Taiwanese variety programmes seem like the best remedy..a novocaine for my soul...
Of course the weekend will be filled with quality time spent with my wife which of course is crucial to my well-being these days...
It seems like her work is beginning to reduce back to a more humanly fashion when the new equipment she is in charge of is finally up after weeks of slogging over it...Now she can even spare time for gym sessions in the evening, meeting friends for dinner and even attending her side-line as she would this evening...
With the start of August, we barely have 2 and a half months to tie up every small niggling details for our nuptials in October...
The banquet is the number 1 hassle to get rid of...and after weeks of procrastination we finally came up with the final draft of people we wanna invite and set off to ask them whether they would actually be free to attend before we confirm the final number of tables from the restaurant and send out the invitation cards...
It seems like friends from my side keep adding up especially the recent reconciliation with some old Secondary school mates and now more colleagues in the new place...
Then of course some would be sacrificed though barely a handful...
But the major scare came from my lass who had intended to invite 50 colleagues of hers...
On financial terms, if every one of her colleague accounts for their own, we should be able to recoup from the ang-bao money but ultimately we should place a bar on the total number of tables as we will wanna be on the safe side with regards to whether we can actually pay the bill without taking the ang-bao money at all...as the latter would seems a bit disgraceful...
So beginning this week, it's the tedious affair to contact come old acquintances to reaffirm their attendance...
Over the weekend, we also got ourselves ready for the photo-shoot on National Day with a hair cut at this avant-garde hair salon a few blocks in front of CS' place and where we used to hang out for drinks back in the old soccer session days...
And of course enlisting the help of my hair-stylist cousin, Linda, we jazzed up that dull hue of our hair with some highlight which in my case is almost unnoticeable due to the dark base...
With the end of July, there was still no sign of a recall manning which got me all jittery for every Saturdays and some Sundays...so prepare for one in November as there hasn't been one for 2006 thus far....
I was able to meet my buddy, TW on schedule after a disappointing stopover at La Tendo with items on my wishlist not in sight once again...
After lingering around Bugis, he was whining about having dinner and we headed down to Orchard as my orginal plan involves dining at a restaurant I had yearning to return for a while, Califonia Pizza Kitchen despite pleas from him of nothing to heaty to nulify that sore throat of his...
We picked up my lass from her gym in Paragon and was surprise to meet up with an old soccer team-mate of ours, Allen who was a bit beefed up but in reasonable scale and along him his newly-wedded wife whose life is unnecessarily tainted for acknowledging that losers like us exist and actually know her hubby...
I doubt we will see Allen anytime soon which is good for them anyway...
Dinner was fantastic with the focaccia for appertizer and the 2 pizzas really filling us to the brim at the end of it especially with TW's appetite badly hindered by his feverish tendency under the vociferousl air conditioning vent directly above of him...
We made fun about travelling in Europe and he did a stance of a Spanish dancer which drew the disgust of a nearby Caucasian dining family whom TW later postulated to be Spainish...
Got a news on Sunday that he was down with a persistent fever which climbed to close 40 degree and failed to subside which lead to a jab at the hospital...
poor chap..what a way to return home... or perhaps bad karma for making fun of Europeans
Got news from my other buddy, CS after trying to contact him for a while and his life had apparently been turned upside down which he might fill us in eventually...but a reunion of the wreckers is definitely on the horizon perhaps even with Foo, but I wouldn't bet too much on that...
Well work wise, I had been trying to impress my immediate supervisor to finish up certain project on hand but due to a variety of reasons, it got pushed back further more..
However now I am really on my own with Phillis back to school and his Beautiness jumping ship to another platform which he was supposed to take over, I got to plan my work schedule over the course of the week and hopefully been praised for been ahead of schedule generally...
But it would be hard without any faults and mishaps along the way as I had tasted recently...
Let's hope we get to find the list of prospective guests for our banquet real soon...but it is just the first stage of a very tedious process...
Been pretty uninspired to post on the blog which limit to about 2 posts a week these days...
Not that work had been particularly preoccupying my life... just that I do not get a regular internet access in the office which really limits down the time to do my usual surfing as compared to my previous job...
Not that I am complaining as I do find being busy here with my own projects surely beats ample free time in my previous job...then of course the non-existent of JxMMy (what a nostalgic name to mention for a long time) sure makes life more beautiful...
Then again when I am back home from work, my mind would just wanna relax and watching comedies or mindless Taiwanese variety programmes seem like the best remedy..a novocaine for my soul...
Of course the weekend will be filled with quality time spent with my wife which of course is crucial to my well-being these days...
It seems like her work is beginning to reduce back to a more humanly fashion when the new equipment she is in charge of is finally up after weeks of slogging over it...Now she can even spare time for gym sessions in the evening, meeting friends for dinner and even attending her side-line as she would this evening...
With the start of August, we barely have 2 and a half months to tie up every small niggling details for our nuptials in October...
The banquet is the number 1 hassle to get rid of...and after weeks of procrastination we finally came up with the final draft of people we wanna invite and set off to ask them whether they would actually be free to attend before we confirm the final number of tables from the restaurant and send out the invitation cards...
It seems like friends from my side keep adding up especially the recent reconciliation with some old Secondary school mates and now more colleagues in the new place...
Then of course some would be sacrificed though barely a handful...
But the major scare came from my lass who had intended to invite 50 colleagues of hers...
On financial terms, if every one of her colleague accounts for their own, we should be able to recoup from the ang-bao money but ultimately we should place a bar on the total number of tables as we will wanna be on the safe side with regards to whether we can actually pay the bill without taking the ang-bao money at all...as the latter would seems a bit disgraceful...
So beginning this week, it's the tedious affair to contact come old acquintances to reaffirm their attendance...
Over the weekend, we also got ourselves ready for the photo-shoot on National Day with a hair cut at this avant-garde hair salon a few blocks in front of CS' place and where we used to hang out for drinks back in the old soccer session days...
And of course enlisting the help of my hair-stylist cousin, Linda, we jazzed up that dull hue of our hair with some highlight which in my case is almost unnoticeable due to the dark base...
With the end of July, there was still no sign of a recall manning which got me all jittery for every Saturdays and some Sundays...so prepare for one in November as there hasn't been one for 2006 thus far....
I was able to meet my buddy, TW on schedule after a disappointing stopover at La Tendo with items on my wishlist not in sight once again...
After lingering around Bugis, he was whining about having dinner and we headed down to Orchard as my orginal plan involves dining at a restaurant I had yearning to return for a while, Califonia Pizza Kitchen despite pleas from him of nothing to heaty to nulify that sore throat of his...
We picked up my lass from her gym in Paragon and was surprise to meet up with an old soccer team-mate of ours, Allen who was a bit beefed up but in reasonable scale and along him his newly-wedded wife whose life is unnecessarily tainted for acknowledging that losers like us exist and actually know her hubby...
I doubt we will see Allen anytime soon which is good for them anyway...
Dinner was fantastic with the focaccia for appertizer and the 2 pizzas really filling us to the brim at the end of it especially with TW's appetite badly hindered by his feverish tendency under the vociferousl air conditioning vent directly above of him...
We made fun about travelling in Europe and he did a stance of a Spanish dancer which drew the disgust of a nearby Caucasian dining family whom TW later postulated to be Spainish...
Got a news on Sunday that he was down with a persistent fever which climbed to close 40 degree and failed to subside which lead to a jab at the hospital...
poor chap..what a way to return home... or perhaps bad karma for making fun of Europeans
Got news from my other buddy, CS after trying to contact him for a while and his life had apparently been turned upside down which he might fill us in eventually...but a reunion of the wreckers is definitely on the horizon perhaps even with Foo, but I wouldn't bet too much on that...
Well work wise, I had been trying to impress my immediate supervisor to finish up certain project on hand but due to a variety of reasons, it got pushed back further more..
However now I am really on my own with Phillis back to school and his Beautiness jumping ship to another platform which he was supposed to take over, I got to plan my work schedule over the course of the week and hopefully been praised for been ahead of schedule generally...
But it would be hard without any faults and mishaps along the way as I had tasted recently...
Let's hope we get to find the list of prospective guests for our banquet real soon...but it is just the first stage of a very tedious process...
Japanese word of the day: ゲスト ~ge-su-to~(Guest) If you are reading this and you feel you should be invited for my banquet, drop a comment..most probably I will say no..SUCKER
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